Re: Almost 80% of UDP packets dropped



Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> UDP is connectionless. There is no way for sender to know that it must
> stop sending UDP packets because receiver cannot keep up. If sender
> and your network is producing and delivering UDP packets faster
> than receiver can consume them, packets will be lost.

Yes, but the problem of the OP sounds like the interrupt handling on mips
pretty badly affects the scheduler. I guess softwareinterrupts and network
polling would help here.

Gruss
Bernd
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